On 11/19/2012 12:50 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > >> for my needs was optimal; but I would also like to try to address the >> problems that the new export functionality tries to solve, except that I >> don' have a clear idea of what they are (except the image quality for >> compressed formats). > > There must be a reason why one group of people keeps linking to > http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Save_%2B_export_specification and > http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Vision_briefing, and another group of > people carefully ignores these links.
I swear I read them and I think that I understood the rationale. But that's note the same thing as saying that I understand what was wrong with the save functionality in 2.6 (because I still don't). >> Is it actually possible for a user to lose the layers when saving to >> JPEG with gimp 2.6? The JPEG plugin asks to flatten the image, at which >> points the users would cancel the process if he really cares about them. > > You seem to be under impression that people actually read text in prompts :) Maybe many don't, but at least they can't blame you for that, can they? :-) I mean, you can get burnt by this issue once, indeed. But the second time you'll be more careful -- and in any case you can't blame the gimp developers if you didn't read a questions which appeared while saving your extremely important file. :-) >> Or do you have reports when this did not occur for some reasons? > > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list/2012-November/msg00190.html It seems that it happened with 2.8, so we could reverse the reasoning and say that the new changes don't help. Though I agree that losing layers with 2.8 is much more difficult, you will never be able to protect those users who don't carefully read your dialog messages... I would argue that gimp's target users are those who are attentive enough to read the questions presented to them before clicking on a button, and also know that JPEG is a lossy format. Ciao, Alberto -- http://blog.mardy.it <- geek in un lingua international! _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
